Experimental Astronomy - New Associate Editors: Peter Wurz and Marcello Giroletti
February 2023
Dr. Wurz is a Full Professor at the Space Research and Planetary Sciences Division, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. He authored hundreds of scientific papers on topics related to plasma physics, space science, planetology, astrobiology, space instrumentation, ion optics, electron-stimulated desorption, ion-sputtering, physical chemistry, and laser interaction with solids and particles.
Dr. Wurz is Lead Co-Investigator for the RTOF instrument of ROSINA on the Rosetta mission (ESA), and is Co-Investigator on Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System (CELIAS) on SOHO (ESA/NASA), Low-Energy Neutral Atom (LENA) instrument on IMAGE (NASA), the ASPERA instruments on Mars Express and Venus Express (both ESA), on the PLASTIC instrument on the STEREO mission (NASA), the SERENA and MPPE/ENA instruments on the BepiColombo mission (ESA/JAXA), the IBEX-Lo instrument on the IBEX mission (NASA), the SARA instrument on the Chandrayaan-1 mission (ISRO), Principal Investigator for the P-BACE instrument on the MEAP mission, Co-PI for the LASMA instrument on the Phobos-Grunt mission (IKI), Co-PI for the LASMA-LR instrument on the Luna-Resurs and Luna-Glob missions (IKI), PI for NGMS instrument on the Luna-Resurs mission, CoI on the SWA instrument on Solar Orbiter (ESA), Co-PI for the PEP instrument on the JUICE mission (ESA), CoI on the HIS/SWA instrument on the Solar Orbiter mission (ESA), CoI on the IMAP-Lo instrument on the IMAP mission (NASA), CoI on the Light Ion Analyser (LIA) on the SMILE mission (CNSS & ESA), CoI on the Mars Ions and Neutral Particles Analyzer (MINPA) for Tianwen-1, and CoI on the Chinese Mars Exploration Mission (CNSS).
Dr. Marcello Giroletti: “I am a Researcher at the Institute of Radioastronomy in Bologna, Italy, where I lead the group of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and high energy astrophysics. My research is primarily based on observations in the radio domain and their connection to multi-wavelength and multi-messenger domains. I started working on relativistic jets that originate in the vicinity of supermassive black holes, and in recent years I'm expanding my area of expertise to study rapid and explosive phenomena, the so-called astrophysical transients.
I am a member of several international collaborations, such as the Square Kilometer Array Observatory, the Cherenkov Array Telescope consortium, and the Fermi Large Area Telescope collaboration, for which I have coordinated the Active Galactic Nuclei science working group. My works based on VLBI arrays have led to ground-breaking results in the fields of gravitational wave counterparts and localization of fast radio bursts. I look forward to the science opportunities in the multi-messenger context that will arise in the coming years!”
http://www.ira.inaf.it/~mgirolet/ (this opens in a new tab)
We gladly welcome Dr. Wurz and Dr. Giroletti to the editorial board team! They join Experimental Astronomy in conjunction with two other updates to journal that better positions it within the scope of Multi-messenger Astronomy and Planetary Science research:
- An update to the journal’s Aims and Scope: https://www.springer.com/journal/10686/updates/24004832 (this opens in a new tab)
- The completion of the Part 2 of the Voyage 2050 Special Issue, “Science themes for ESA’s long-term plan for the science programme: Solar Systems, ours and others”: https://www.springer.com/journal/10686/updates/24004860 (this opens in a new tab)